In Memoriam: Jean M. Bennett
Jean M. Bennett, an Optics Express Associate Editor since 2004, died
last week in California. She was a committed Associate Editor,
looking after submissions in the area of thin-film optics and
scattering. In one of her email messages to me she explained her
very careful approach in dealing with submissions: "... I have been
writing and reviewing optics papers for over 50 years and know a lot
about the basic subject of surface roughness and scattering. I have
seen numerous papers on this subject that are in the published
literature that are wrong, either because the reviewers were not
knowledgeable or careful or an editor passed a paper that should
have been rejected. I don't want to add to the junk in the
literature." If we all took these sentiments to heart the scientific
community would be a better place. I am grateful for her
contributions to Optics Express over the years. Our thoughts go to
her family at this time.
Martijn de Sterke,
Editor, Optics Express
